Sentence examples for Picador from high-quality English sources.

• • Mark Lawson’s The Deaths is published by Picador.

• Jacob Polley has published four books of poems with Picador, winning the 2016 T.S.

• One writer saw in him "the poise of a part-time picador" and he appeared to have the football world at his feet.

• On the morning after the announcement of the winner, Picador ordered another 30,000 copies of “The Line of Beauty”.

• And then along comes James Salter's All That Is (Picador).

• Kate Clanchy’s The Not-Dead and the Saved and Other Stories is published by Picador.

• • The Psalm Killer by Chris Petit will be published as a Picador Classic this month.

• He is the translator of Behrouz Boochani’s book No Friend But the Mountains: Writing From Manus Prison (Picador 2018)

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• • The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor by Cameron McCabe (Ernest Borneman) is published this month as a Picador Classic.

• “I began writing the novel in 2018, long before the current pandemic,” Don DeLillo has said of The Silence (Picador, October).

• • Reprinted from the forthcoming Picador Classics edition of A House for Mr Biswas by VS Naipaul (published 25 February, £10.99).

• The first begins with smoke rising, though it's the earthliness of Harvest (Picador) that renders Jim Crace's swan song unearthly.

• It's been a privilege to have read consecutively two exceptionally well crafted novels – Jim Crace's Harvest (Picador) and Colum McCann's Transatlantic (Bloomsbury).

• In a year of vast and vastly hyped American novels, the one to rule them all was Hanya Yanagihara’s Booker favourite A Little Life (Picador), which divided readers into the ecstatic and the exasperated.

• From public information slogans to individual fears, Emma Donoghue’s The Pull of the Stars (Picador), set in a Dublin maternity hospital during the 1918 flu pandemic, shows how little our responses have changed.

• Swift’s later short fiction includes Chemistry (2008), two short stories released by the publisher Picador as part of an initiative to encourage the reading of short fiction, and the extensive collection England and Other Stories (2014).

Picador sentence examples

• I loved two newish novels which mix realistic elements with fantasy, have a strong undertow of elegy, and which also, weirdly, both have “eleven” in the title: Emily St John Mandel’s Station Eleven (Picador £12.99) and Jonathan Coe’s Number 11 (Viking £16.99).

• Orwell prize winner Kate Clanchy has written How to Grow Your Own Poem (Picador, September), an encouragement to write verse; in similar vein, Clive James’s last book The Fire of Joy (Picador, October) is a set of personal, quintessentially Jamesian commentaries on 80 of his favourite poems.

• Two semi-autobiographical Scottish debuts from Picador showcased essential new voices: Douglas Stuart took the Booker prize for his moving, devastating Shuggie Bain, the tale of a boy’s desperate love for his alcoholic mother in the deprived, post-industrial 80s; while Graeme Armstrong’s The Young Team, set among teenage gangs in Lanarkshire, updated Trainspotting for a new generation.

• Three books stood out for me this year: The End We Start From by Megan Hunter (Picador £9.99) is a short, haunting story about the end of days, sparse, beautiful and heroic; The Day That Went Missing: A Family’s Story by Richard Beard (Harvill Secker £14.99) is a devastating forage into memory and the brutality of the stiff upper lip; and The Boy Behind the Curtain by Tim Winton (Picador £16.99), essays from every part of the writer’s life.